Face Of The Day

Tis the season to be silly at the National Physical Laboratory,
where scientists have constructed the world’s smallest snowman by
shooting a focused ion beam at nano-scale tin beads used in the
correction of electron microscope astigmatism. The final product measures a ridiculous 10 µm across 1/5th the width of a human hair. Check out the making of here.

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